Fastener.



F. A. NOLAN.

FASTENER. APPLICATION FILED NOV-30' I917.

Patented Jan. 14, 1919.

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FRANCIS A. NOLAN, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

IFASTENEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1919.

Application filed November 30, 1917. Serial No. 204,514.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANCIS A. NOLAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in heel fasteners and more particularly is an improvement in the fastener set forth in Patent Number 1,004,897 granted to me on the 3rd day of October, 1911. The particular improvement provides greater resisting surface for the soft resilient material of the body of the heel and stiffens the fastener so as to prevent the shoemaker from bending the fastener by pounding when the fastener is' secured to a shoe.

To these ends my invention relates to the features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is an elevation of the heel portion of a shoe with the heel partly in section; Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line XX of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a perspective of the fastener; Fig. 4 is a plan of the blank from which the fastener is formed; Fig. 5 is a bottom plan of the fastener, and Fig. 6 is a top view of a heel with my improved fastener, the heel being partly broken away and showing the connection between the flanges of the fastener and the rubber heel.

In the drawing is shown a portion of a shoe A having a counter 2, sole 3 and a heel base 4, which may be of any desired thickness or may be omitted entirely. A heel B made of rubber or other suitable resilient material is attached to the shoe A by a fastener C, for which the heel B is suitably recessed at D.

The fastener C is in the form of a plate 5 punched or otherwise formed from a flat piece of sheet metal or other suitable material as shown in Fig. 4 with forwardly and rearwardly extending rim portions 6 and 7 which are adapted to be bent upwardly at substantially right angles to the plane of the plate along the lines 8 and 9 shown dotted in Fig. 4. At the corners of the upturned portions are acute points 10, which extend upwardly in the completed form of the device as shown in Fig. 3 and having one face oblique and one face normal to the surface of the heel base. From the lateral sides of the plate 5 extend flanges 11 and 12 respectively at the forward and rear ends of the sides. These flanges are formed with rounded side edges and lie adjacent to each other with a V-shaped opening or indentation 13 between them. Holes 14 (see Fig. 4) are punched or otherwise formed in the plate 5 leaving a bridge 15 connecting the forward and rear portions of the plate, and pairs of rim portions 16 are bent upwardly from the holes 14 along the dotted lines 17 which are shown in Fig. 4. These pairs of rim portions 16 reinforce the strength of the plate by making it more rigid and serve the function of side supports or abutments which hold the rubber heel which is subsequently mountcd upon the fastener firmly against lateral movement or twisting. They also serve to prevent the shoemaker from bending the plate by pounding. Perforations 19 are made in the plate for nails 20, screws or other suitable means of attachment to the shoe. The flanges 6, 7 and 16 are of substantially the same height above the plate and form a rim which rests against the heel base 4 of the shoe as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2. The nails 20 driven upwardly through the perforations 19 and heel base attach the fastener C to the shoe. In this position the points 10 are fixed in the leather of the heel base 4 and serve to assist in taking the lateral strain from the nails 19.

The rubber heel B is made of rubber or other suitable material and has the usual outer shape of a heel, which together with the heel base 4 make up a heel of the proper height for a shoe. In the top of the heel is an opening 21 fitted to the exterior of the rim formed by the rim portions 6, 7 and 16 to hold the heel B vertically and laterally in its proper position on the shoe. Below the top of the heel the opening 21 is recessed laterally to receive the flanges 11 and 12, the rubber being left in the form of a web 22 to fill the V shaped opening or indentation between the flanges on each side of the fastener, the flanges 11 and 12 being of the same form on the two sides of the fastener. The recesses in the rubber heels B are of the same form on the two sides of the heel and the heel may be put on from either side equally well, which prevents the delay and possible injury to the heel from putting a heel on wrong or on an unsymmetrical fastener.

In accordance with the patent statutes, I

have described the principles of operation of my invention, together with the apparatus WhichI now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof, but I desire to have it understood that the construction shown is only illustrative and that the invention can be carried out by other means and applied to uses other than those above set forth Within the scope of the following claims.

Having described my invention What I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

l. A fastener for resilient heels, comprising, a plate having an upturned front rim, back rim and a pair of openings, said plate being formed at the opposite sides of each of said openings with a pair of longitudinally disposed upturned rims, all of said rims being extended to the same height to Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the bear against an object on which the fastener is secured, and a resilient heel having a centrally disposed opening to receive said plate with its rims extending outwardly.

2. A fastener for resilient heels, comprising a plate having an upturned front rim, an upturned back rim, an opening in said plate, a bridge member projecting across said opening and a longitudinally disposed pair of upturned rims at the opposite sides of said opening, said bridge member being formed with an upturned protuberance extending upwardly the same height as the rims of said pair to bear against an object on which said fastener is secured.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

FRANCIS A. NOLAN.

Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. 

